22 Jan
2004
22 Jan
'04
5:15 a.m.
Hi,
How well has media coverd the RMS talk? Any pointers to articles or
interviews ?
raj
22 Jan
22 Jan
7:29 p.m.
On Thursday 22 Jan 2004 10:45 am, Rajkumar S wrote:
How well has media coverd the RMS talk? Any pointers
to articles or
interviews ?
Watch next CNBC TV18 next ShowBiz@10
between 10 - 10:30 pm
This information was provided by Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan, Correspondent, CNBC
India.
Regards
Rishi
24 Jan
24 Jan
2:25 a.m.
New subject: ET reports RMS on the front page
Today's Economic Times, on its first page, featured a photograph of RMS
with the caption "Hats Off: Richard M Stallman, founder of the Free
Software Movement, is seen during an event at the Cochin University of
Science and Technology in Kochi on Friday. Stallman promotes the GNU
operating system, a free software that rivals Microsoft's Windows."
A few titles on the last page:
"Linux making slow inroads into India" - covering the visit of Matthew
Szulik, chairman and CEO of Red Hat to India.
"MS' earning down 17%"
9:40 p.m.
New subject: ET reports RMS on the front page
Today's Economic Times, on its first page, featured a photograph of RMS
with the caption "Hats Off: Richard M Stallman, founder of the Free
Software Movement, is seen during an event at the Cochin University of
Science and Technology in Kochi on Friday. Stallman promotes the GNU
operating system, a free software that rivals Microsoft's Windows."
It would be useful to clip copies of the articles that report
on FSF India activities such as these.
25 Jan
25 Jan
3:32 a.m.
New subject: ET reports RMS on the front page
Ramanraj posts:
"Hats Off: Richard M Stallman, founder of the
Free Software Movement,
is seen during an event at the Cochin University of Science and
Technology in Kochi on Friday
This is a run of the Associated Press across India, it has come in many
newspapers like the Hindu, the Economic Times, Deccan Herald etc. They
have done the Free Software movement a great help, thanks AP.
All online editions of newspapers like the Mathrubhumi, Deshabhimani,
Madhyamam, Deepika, the Hindu and the New Indian Express dated Jan 23,
Jan 24, Jan 25 have extensive coverage of the RMS talks at Thrissur,
CUSAT Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.
For the list members' browsing pleasure, some links. There are many
more...
o http://www.hindu.com/2004/01/25/stories/2004012504990400.htm
o http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/01/25/stories/2004012500140200.htm
o http://www.hindu.com/2004/01/25/stories/2004012501151100.htm
Our list member Vimal Joseph <vimalekm(a)vsnl.net> was assigned as the
Publicity Lead for the RMS talk at CUSAT, Kochi. He has a huge
collection of the coverage, both past and present. He has done a very
good job in compiling all these stuff plus putting together the press
kits.
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4:21 a.m.
New subject: Reports on FSF-India activities
There was one more in The Hindu titled "Software evangelists converge on
India"
http://www.hindu.com/2004/01/25/stories/2004012501131100.htm
But, the last paragraph needs a reply:
<quote>
However, he [Martin Fink] adds that while open software may provide
solutions in the enterprise sector, the Linux desktop is — unlike
Windows — not mature and adds that it is ``an area where hype is ahead
of reality by orders of magnitude''.
</quote>
27 Jan
27 Jan
10:29 a.m.
New subject: Reports on FSF-India activities
Ramanraj K <ramanraj(a)md4.vsnl.net.in> writes:
But, the last paragraph needs a reply:
<quote>
However, he [Martin Fink] adds that while open software may provide
solutions in the enterprise sector, the Linux desktop is ≈ unlike
Windows ≈ not mature and adds that it is ``an area where hype is
ahead of reality by orders of magnitude''.
</quote>
But Linus himself has stated very recently (at Australia) that "while
Linux is well deep into the server space and market, the home desktop
will take 5 to 10 years to be equally competitive with other
solutions."
[since I was quoting I couldn't change that to GNU/Linux]
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5707
http://tinyurl.com/37fnk
When Linus tells "normal users" I guess he is having people like my
brothers and sister (doctors) in mind.
Rgds,
anna
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2:35 p.m.
New subject: Reports on FSF-India activities
Annamalai Gurusami said on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:59:04PM +0530,:
But Linus himself has stated very recently (at
Australia) that "while
Linux is well deep into the server space and market, the home desktop
will take 5 to 10 years to be equally competitive with other
solutions."
[since I was quoting I couldn't change that to GNU/Linux]
Linus may be right. `Linux' might not be ready for the desktop.
But the GNU/Linux operating system is. And people like my mother and
sister (I have no brothers) do use it.
Next time anybody tells you that `Linux' is not ready for desk top,
ask him to use GNOME, which is part of the GNU project, or KDE,
another equally free and user friendly desktop.
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28 Jan
28 Jan
2:31 a.m.
New subject: ET on Software Satyagraha
The Economic Times has carried a full page feature on free software
under the label open source, in association with Red Hat. [Therefore,
please turn on your label filters in your mind before reading]. Looks
like LIC is the biggest successful user of free software in India.
There is also an ad from Novell in the timesascent issue annexed to ET,
calling MCA grads and others to work with them to develop Gnome Desktops
etc.
1:41 a.m.
New subject: Reports on FSF-India activities
Annamalai Gurusami posts:
But Linus himself has stated very recently (at
Australia) that "while
Linux is well deep into the server space and market, the home desktop
will take 5 to 10 years to be equally competitive with other
solutions."
We all know that Linus is not too much bothered about our angle on
Computing. So the best thing you should do is to ignore what he says
about the future of Computing and instead further it by telling your
friends/community about Swathanthra software, about the GNU Project,
and above all, about the ethical necessity of sharing.
Maybe we should not give importance to such `predictions'. We have
something which is real and usable and that is the GNU/Linux system.
My son who is a 4th grade student is a good user of GNU Emacs, he
recently taught me how to edit multiple documents using GNU Emacs.
[since I was quoting I couldn't change that to
GNU/Linux]
It would do us a great help if such `Open Source' news which confuses
many of us here does not get posted anywhere so that it need not be
quoted at all. ;-)
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